Bleh

I feel that tightness in the back of my throat, at the tops of my tonsils. When I swallow, I am aware of them, which means I'm going to be sick-like sometime soon. I got over my cough just in time to get sickly again, I suppose.

I've been battling my very own sadfrog.jpg tonight. You will never see Pink Floyd perform the Pulse Tour. There, I said it.

The live Pulse album is excellent. All of Pulse and then all of Dark Side on one CD? Hell yes, sign me up! High Hopes has been the fuel for like, this entire blog. I love this album. That's why I'm boggled when I tried to launch it from my Zune player and got met with an interesting error.

This item is no longer available on the Zune Marketplace. It can no longer be played or synced.

Well you know what? Fuck you, Zune Marketplace. I already "paid" for the album when I bought my Zune Pass. I don't quite RECALL reading that "At any point, even if you've paid for it, we can revoke this" in the fine print. I'm kind of pissed.

As a rule, I hate piracy. Not the action itself, but when I do it. I drunkenly installed utorrent one night after talking to Mai and I still have the /rs/ link bookmarked with STALKER stuff in it. I don't like downloading ROMs when I can just play the game on a console. I don't try to pirate music. I like feeling like I own a legit copy of something.

However, Microsoft, I feel you have left me no choice but to draw my cutlass. We talked about it in the car recently. If you will let me pay for something, I will do my best to pay for it. If a product is available for a cost, I wish to pay it. When something is no longer available without spending an unreasonable fund on Amazon or Ebay, I suddenly find my moral ground awfully yielding.

I don't like stealing. It goes against my scruples. Where is the line, though? When I pay for a service and am misled into thinking I'm actually getting something? I paid for a privilege to have access to music. When my subscription ran out, my privilege to download music was revoked. Now, as an afterthought, more than a year later, something I presumed was mine to use is now void? Null? Removed? I disagree, sirs. Your appearance is not "Pay us to let you listen to this until you can't." You have a failing business model, and I am offended.

I'm worried about DC:U. I enjoy my character insofar, I like the bit of rough story I'm working out in my head. I like Gotham, I like the dynamic. I finished my first two main stories though and now all of my leads point me towards Metropolis. This is why roleplayers ruin everything, I suppose?

I know it's just exp progress, but I wanted to run my lifetime in Gotham. Suddenly having to leave the relatively-realistic-by-comparison drug dealers and murders and thieves and mobsters to go chase after... Monkeys with lasers? I should lighten up and just keep an eye out while leveling for an excuse to return to my digs, I guess, but I don't know. I had misconceptions. They are now being revealed. Hiss, light burns.

Rob mentioned he was trying out Vindictus, a pretty well received free MMO. I might give it a download soonish to check out a little, wouldn't hurt to have something else to burn time into so I'm not blazing ahead of everyone in DC. Amusingly, I was killstealing Tsiife earlier. I came across him fighting mobsters that I presume we both needed and I'd forgotten I'd rerolled. Despite looking almost exactly the same and having near-similar names, he overlooked me I guess. We parted before long and I didn't reveal myself. Just felt antisocial tonight, I guess.

My neck hurts. My throat has that ill-boding itch. I'm not tired, but my eyes are drooping. What to do.